Mental Health Insights
The Naum Centre's growing library of evidence-informed articles designed to help you better understand mental health, relationships and emotional wellbeing.
Explore practical strategies, concepts, and everyday tools covering topics such as anxiety, ADHD, trauma, grief, boundaries, stress, identity and personal growth.
Whether you're looking to better understand yourself, support someone else, or complement your counselling journey, our articles aim to make mental health knowledge accessible, practical and relevant to everyday life.
How to Talk to Your Teen About Exam Stress
Exam stress is a genuinely common experience for VCE and HSC students, and a certain amount of it is normal and even useful. The goal isn't to eliminate stress altogether, but to help your teenager manage it well, and to know the signs that it's becoming more than typical pressure.
Why Is My Teenager So Irritable? Understanding Adolescent Mood Swings
Intense, unpredictable moods are one of the most common features of adolescence, and they're usually driven by real, ongoing brain development rather than deliberate difficulty.
Understanding what's happening developmentally can make the irritability easier to respond to, even when it's genuinely hard to live with day to day.